My first serious realisation of how broken Ghana's healthcare system came in 2006, when I started my clinicals at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). Medicine, perhaps more than any other part of the economy, desperately needs innovation and entrepreneurship. Doctors have become disconnected from patient care, as they spend more and more time managing staff and third-party billing, and haggling over remuneration. Fast-forward to today, prices keep rising, frazzled doctors and providers are leaving their professions, and patients face longer waits and worsening service.
But a new world of medical entrepreneurship is growing. Concierge and cash-only practices, walk-in cash clinics, medical tourism, and cost-sharing plans are just a few of the ways free-market approaches are changing the landscape.
Isaac Osei.
BSc. Biological Sciences, University of Ghana (I) || BSc. Human Biology (KNUST) || MBChB Medicine & Surgery, KNUST-KATH (I)
Founder, Care Now Pay Later Ghana ||Founder, The DCANS Group Limited || Founder, Osei SFO.
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